Opposition between Husserl's Idea of Science and the Positivist Idea of Science

Reduction of science to the mere fact by positivism is the focus of the present article. To explain such an idea, at the beginning Husserl goes to describe his own idea of science and considers it in line with the ancient ideal of philosophy i.e. universal knowledge. In this way, he deems this idea as consisting of absolute and universal validity of its statements, attaining a systematic whole of knowledge… Then, he goes to analyze the positivist idea of science which, according to him, reveals itself in aspects of philosophy of worldview, historicism, and mathematization of the nature. According to Husserl, historicism, philosophy of worldview and the like as various forms of positivism pave the way to limit the concept of science to the mere objective reality or a spiritual formation which depends upon gradual development. According to him this has led, on the one hand, to limitation of the universe to the universe of bodies or physicalist nature, and reduction of all metaphysical questions to the mere objective reality.